Maureen Doallas: “This elegy is inspired by a selection of images from ‘The Moroccans’ that appeared in The Guardian in honor of the French-Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui, murdered this past week in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, while sitting with her driver in their car outside the Splendid hotel. Alaoui, an extraordinary photographer, was 33 years old. Twenty-eight others also lost their lives to the terrorists. I look at Alaoui’s images, trying to imagine what she saw. I have no hint of the voices of her subjects, few of whom offer even the slightest smile. The eyes carry the stories. Those Alaoui photographed gave her what she asked, which was always to face her.” (website)